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...Varo’s “Harmony (Suggestive Self-Portrait)” (1956), a self-depiction as a mystic in a hallowed space, evocative of Renaissance depictions of St Jerome, fetched $6.2mn in 2020....
...Top lot of the sale — and the last conducted by Christie’s star auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen — was St Jerome (c1653), which sold for £1.25mn (£1.6mn with fees, est £500,000-£700,000)....
...The 16th-century artwork, nearly 3.5 metres tall, depicts Saint Jerome’s vision of John the Baptist revealing the Virgin and Jesus. It has a rich history....
...The negatives were given to the Tate. The way we received punk in America, it didn’t upset the whole damn thing, it didn’t create a different politics....
...Calel’s work was recently acquired by Tate, at the Frieze London fair — with the museum as a custodian of its rights rather than an owner....
...To October 24, tate.org.ukKunstmuseum Den Haag, November 27-March 20 Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...And, after his major retrospective at Tate Modern, there is a Franz West papier-mâché sculpture from 2007 (est £300,000-£500,000)....
...And I am so happy to have Jérôme to curate it!” says Lo. And with that, and another burst of laughter, he bids me goodbye....
...Organised with the help of friends and co-directors Jerome Toole and Joey Valiunas and mainly publicised through word of mouth, it sold 150 tickets and was held on a site in Reading, with a permit to sell...
...It became less bucolic, more a place of recreation; less Kenneth Grahame, more Jerome K Jerome. Hikers, cyclists and dog walkers appeared on the banks. A few hardy souls were swimming....
...Some of his greatest successes have been residencies in museums including Tate Modern and MoMA, where the audience was free to move and occasionally take part in the proceedings....
...How fascinating to compare these portraits to Hockney’s, currently at Tate Britain’s retrospective....
...Joining them is Sulger-Buel Lovell gallery, established beside Tate Modern; it is a partnership between Tamzin Lovell Miller and a Swiss-French collector, Christian Sulger-Buel....
...Nauman, who in 2004 filled Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with brilliantly quirky sound, is his successor....
...In 2012 I dropped into Tate Britain to see Picasso & Modern British Art, an exhibition that included a display of the costumes and set designs made by Picasso for the Ballets Russes in 1917: an insight into...
...A UK tour follows, sounduk.net Photographs: Alex Bonney; Jérôme Bouchet...
...Its owner, who has been widely identified as the Dublin businessman John Magnier, applied for an export licence, but in 2003 Tate managed to raise £12.5m to match the price and keep the work in the UK....
...The double portrait of Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate is famous, of course, but it is not really very good....
...Cranach was no bigot: he continued to work for Catholic patrons, depicting one as St Jerome, supplying others with Madonnas....
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